Dealing with text overflows...

I have a list of dynamically generated band names which I need to display across 2 fixed height columns on my page. The list varies in length considerably according to the requirements of the site owner who is using a CMS to update the database. Is there any way of using css to make the text flow automatically to the 2nd div when the first is full? Or something else? php?
Thanks

Hi again -got the css3 version working and its absolutely perfect so very pleased with that. Obviously though there are problems with the other browsers so for the time being I've set the text overflow to scroll, which is just about ok though not very elegant.
So I would really like to crack the php solution - also good practise for me as I am trying to learn it.
I've spent quite a while trawling looking for code snippets and found the following, which is slightly different in that the code is - I think - attempting to limit the length of the text that goes into the various cells, whereas I am trying to limit the number of records. I think mine is probably simpler but am struggling to adapt it. Before I spend hours and hours on it I wondered whether you could take a quick look and let me know whether you think its feasible?
For the basic code - to assign 2 divs to divide the records between:
<div><?php echo($text[1]);?></div>
<div><?php echo($text[2]);?></div>
The php - limits the content to 100 words per div, I think...
$words=explode(" ",$text);
$c=count($words);
echo("<div>$words[0] ");
for($i=1;$i<=$c;$i++){
if($i%100!=0)echo("$words[$i] ");
if($i%100==0){echo("</div><div>$words[$i] ");}
echo("</div>");
I can work out some but not all of it so would be very grateful for any advice,
Thanks again,
SW

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